Data supporting the benefit of lifestyle interventions in terms of overall health come from the Look AHEAD trial [1], which demonstrated clinically significant weight loss and improvements in diabetic control and cardiovascular risk factors in obese, type 2 diabetics. It is expected that this intervention will result in beneficial changes to the participants' overall health status as represented in the short term by improvements in objective clinical measurements (such as reduction in weight, BP, serum cholesterol and fasting serum glucose levels), and overall health-related quality of life. The investigators also hypothesize that such an intervention will result in improved post-operative urological outcomes, namely accelerated return of urinary continence and EF. Urologists are in a good position to promote healthy living, and initiating interventions such as these prior to surgery can provide the foundation of a healthy lifestyle that will enable the patient to maintain the aforementioned benefits well beyond their surgery, and extending beyond the urological domain.